Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of MiniDisc releases
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The result was delete. Cabayi (talk) 15:10, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
List of MiniDisc releases[edit]
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FAils WP:LISTCRIT and WP:LISTN. This is simply a catalog listing of releases on a particular format, and there's no way this can ever be sourced except by linking to Amazon and other online stores, because there are no sources that describe all the albums released on MiniDisc. Why not List of CD releases or List of vinyl LP releases? Richard3120 (talk) 21:18, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 21:20, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 18:46, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
- No comment on whether this is of indiscriminate scope (though certainly far fewer albums were released in this format than CD or vinyl), but the mass-produced discs are themselves sources for their own existence and content, fundamentally no different than a list of books. Any information not contained in the disc releases themselves would clearly need a separate source, like if the list purported to be comprehensive. postdlf (talk) 22:40, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
- So if the thing itself is enough to be a source for its existence, then what's stopping editors creating lists of everything that exists? And just because there were fewer of something doesn't make it more list-worthy. Richard3120 (talk) 00:34, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- That’s not the question I was answering. You’re welcome to move on to different points, but your nom claimed these couldn’t be sourced and compared it to lists of media that basically every album ever had been released under. That’s as far as I was commenting. postdlf (talk) 01:24, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- Well, I don't dispute the existence of these albums on MiniDisc, but I wouldn't make List of CD releases based on the fact I could source their existence either. But my main point was that I don't believe this meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, whether the individual entries could be proved to exist or not. Richard3120 (talk) 12:31, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- That’s not the question I was answering. You’re welcome to move on to different points, but your nom claimed these couldn’t be sourced and compared it to lists of media that basically every album ever had been released under. That’s as far as I was commenting. postdlf (talk) 01:24, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- So if the thing itself is enough to be a source for its existence, then what's stopping editors creating lists of everything that exists? And just because there were fewer of something doesn't make it more list-worthy. Richard3120 (talk) 00:34, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, simple case of WP:NOTCATALOGUE. Ajf773 (talk) 08:48, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
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